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Räpina, about 250 km (155 miles) southeast of Tallinn. Summer games by the lakeside, in the Estonian countryside.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
Open plain landscapes with forest lines in the distance, which continue as far as northeast Poland. A feeling of emptiness that already conjures up the vastness of Russia.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
An Estonian family in their house in the country at Vandjala, a few dozen kilometres from Tallinn. We met them at the village festival.
© Ciril Cincet
The cemetery in Paldiski, a Russian-speaking enclave and former Soviet military base in Estonia. When Estonia became independent, many Russians took refuge on this Baltic peninsula, about fifty kilometres southwest of Tallinn. Nearly 30% of Estonians speak only Russian.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
Supermarket in Paldiski, a town where the majority of inhabitants are Russian. In Estonia, the principle by which nationality is based on place of birth does not exist; a child born to Russian parents is Russian. They also often go to Russian schools and live amongst themselves.
© Ciril Cincet
A fishing party at the headland of Paldiski.
© Ciril Cincet
The Parnü campsite at dusk. An old Hanseatic town in southern Estonia, Parnü is the country’s most renowned seaside resort.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
An encounter at a traditional festival in the region of Vandjala and Kostivere, east of Tallinn.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
Near the commercial port of Riga, in Latvia. Although in all these countries the Ladas and Fiat Polskis gave way to western saloons a long time ago, you still find these same rows of garages everywhere, from Riga to Warsaw, vestiges of a collectivist urban development that is still very present.
© Ciril Cincet
On the shores of the Baltic Sea, near Riga and Jürmala.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
A father and son by the fire during a weekend in the country in Latvia.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
Tram terminus, at the industrial port of Riga.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
The port of Riga. Despite a certain demographic decline, Riga remains the largest urban centre of the Baltic States. A strategic port for the transit of goods between the European Union and Russia.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
In the Latvian countryside...
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
Jürmala beach, near Riga. A holiday spot for the rich inhabitants of the capital.
© Julien Voisin / Nolita
Tourism and Gastronomy
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